Head of Research Delivery and Support for Out of Hospital Settings

We are looking for a Head of Research Delivery and Support for Out of Hospital Settings to join the team. This senior leadership role will focus on the strategic oversight, deployment and delivery capabilities of the RRDN's Agile Research Delivery Team. This role will work alongside the Head of Partner Liaison and Planning to co-lead the work of the Study Support Service Team with a focus on out of hospital settings.

This role will liaise with NIHR Research Delivery Network (RDN) research Delivery Organisations (organisations delivering RDN portfolio research) across all settings to ensure they are effectively supported by the Agile Research Delivery Team.

This role has oversight of the Regional RDN (RRDN) Study Support Service, with respect to out of hospital settings, which will be seamlessly integrated within the collective national Study Support Service and interfacing Agile Research Delivery team.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for fostering and nurturing productive relationships with regional partners including both commercial and non-commercial study teams/sponsors, research site delivery personnel, and senior research leadership within Delivery Organisations. This includes collaborating closely with Regional Specialty and Setting Leads to support the delivery of regional and national projects.

In addition to regional duties, the post holder will collaborate with senior counterparts from other RDN regions and the national RDN team to innovate and evolve services, aligning them more closely with the changing needs of the system.

This post holder will lead dedicated teams in the provision of Out of Hospital services, ensuring seamless coordination with other services/functions within the regional network and across the national network. This role will line-manage the senior manager of the Agile Research Delivery team and direct the agile team's resources to meet strategic needs.

Full time: 37.5 hours per week.

Interview date: 17th February 2025

About us

Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff! The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world. We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N& N Hospitals Charity.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

• Flexible working hours
• Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
• Multi Faith prayer room
• Discounted gym memberships
• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
• Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
• Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
• On-site Nursery
• On-site cafes offering staff discounts
• Support in career development
• Flexible staff bank
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics

Job description
Job responsibilities

In October 2024, the NIHR Clinical Research Network changed to become the NIHR Research Delivery Network (RDN). The RDN will build on the successes of the CRN in supporting the effective and efficient initiation and delivery of funded research across the health and care system in England for the benefit of patients, the health and care system and the economy.

The RDN will support:

• Clinical trials and other well-designed health and social care research studies (including studies that are delivered outside of an NHS setting)
• Public health studies that require the recruitment of individuals within an NHS setting (that is, acute, ambulance, mental health, community or primary care) or an episode of care which involves contact with the NHS.

The RDN is a new organisation with new structures, governance and ways of working. Study delivery in England will be supported through 12 NIHR Regional Research Delivery Networks (RRDNs). These will work with the national Coordinating Centre (RDNCC) and the Department of Health and Care to provide a joint RDN leadership function via the RDN Board, so that the NIHR RDN as a whole functions as a single, transparent organisation with a shared vision and purpose. NNUHFT will be the Host Organisation for the East of England RRDN region.

The NIHR RRDNs will have three key roles which it will fulfil via new models of service delivery and functions, to:

• provide support to research sites to enable the effective and efficient initiation and delivery of funded research across the health and care system in England
• enable the strategic development of new and more effective research delivery capability and capacity. This will include bringing research to under-served regions and communities with major health and care needs
• work jointly with the Coordinating Centre in the strategic oversight of the NIHR RDN. This will ensure that the Portfolio is maintained as a cohort of high-quality, fully-funded, viable and deliverable studies. It will also ensure that the NIHR RDN as a whole serves the research delivery needs of investigators and R&D teams and is responsive to the changing domestic and global environment for health and care, life sciences and health research.

The NIHR RRDNs will develop excellent relationships with the organisations commissioning and providing health and social care across their regions, which are mapped onto NHS regions and Integrated Care Systems. They will help support research undertaken by those providers and at sites across the region, and promote research meeting the needs of local populations. NIHR RRDNs will work together with an RDN Coordinating Centre to support health and care research delivery for the benefit of patients, the health and care system and the economy as a whole.

Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential

• Masters level qualification or equivalent experience.

Knowledge and Experience
Essential

• Experience of health and care research management at a senior level, including
• Experience of business planning, financial management and operational implementation, preferably within an NHS organisation.
• Experience of contributing to the development of national policy or strategies, and translating those into regional plans.

Skills and Abilities
Essential

• Ability to plan, manage, adjust and deliver complex programmes and projects, involving multiple agencies and individuals and a broad range of activities, to tight deadlines

Values and Personal Qualities
Essential

• Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence

Employer details
Employer name
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
Address
20 Rouen Road
Norwich
NR1 1QQ
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